Department of Neuroscience Faculty
Faculty in the Department of Neuroscience at NYU Langone Health include basic scientists and clinicians who work together to discern the inner workings of the brain.
Informed by a strong legacy of research in systems neuroscience and inspired by new faculty using diverse, cutting-edge methods, our research teams seek to understand the fundamental mechanisms of brain function and disease through collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects.
Core Faculty
Jayeeta Basu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Research interests: long-term memory formation and processing
Andrea Brand, PhD
Frederick L. Ehrman Professor of Cell Biology, Department of Cell Biology; Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: genetic networks of neural stem cells, chromatin, differentiation
Gyorgy Buzsaki, MD, PhD
Biggs Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience; Professor, Department of Neurology
Research interests: Syntax of brain circuits. Memory, sleep, epilepsy, and brain rhythms
Moses Chao, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell Biology; Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology; Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Research interests: effect of the environment, neuronal activity, inflammation, injury and disease on the nervous system
Zhe Chen, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: computational neuroscience, brain-machine interfaces and NeuroAI, for study of memory and learning, cognitive flexibility and decision making, social behaviors, and pain
Dmitri Chklovskii, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: computational biology, imaging, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Jeremy Dasen, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: developmental programs that direct asssembly and function of vertebrate sensory-motor circuits
Javier Emperador Melero, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: synaptic protein assembly for information processing in the brain
Gilad Evrony, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: origins of brain tumors, novel single-cell lineage tracing technologies, somatic mutation in the brain and other tissues, undiagnosed genetic diseases.
Robert Froemke, PhD
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery; Skirball Professor of Genetics, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: adaptations for maternal care and sensory processing; oxytocin; improving cochlear implant use
Molly Gale Hammell, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Research interests: functional gene networks in neurodegenerative disease, in particular ALS; transposable elements
Paul Glimcher, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Research interests: neurobiological foundations of economic decision making
Biyu He, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology; Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Associate Professor, Department of Radiology
Research interests: how the brain gives rise to perceptual awareness
Orna Issler, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain Medicine; Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: noncoding RNAs in depression and pain
Un Kang, MD, PhD
Founders Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology; Professor, Department of Neurology
Research interests: underlying mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease
Eric Lang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Research interests: neuronal basis of motor coordination, cerebellar physiology, molecular, cellular, & translational neuroscience, systems, cognitive, & computational neuroscience
Shane Liddelow, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology; Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Research interests: reactive astrocyte heterogeneity in CNS diseases
Dayu Lin, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: neural circuits of social behaviors and their plasticity
Michael Long, PhD
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery; Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: neural circuit dynamics underlying social communication
Adam Mar, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: neuropharmacological mechanisms of prefrontal cortex in regulating motivation, cognition and decision making on translationally-relevant behavioral paradigms. Rodent Behavior Laboratory.
Arjun Masukar, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: circuit mechanisms, clinical biomarkers, risk factors, and cognitive outcomes of early Alzheimer's disease symptoms
Alice Mosberger, ScD
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: the role of the brain's sensorimotor circuitry in skilled movements
Katherine Nagel, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: circuits of goal-directed behavior
Thomas Neubert, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: using mass spectrometry to study neuronal signaling
Margaret Rice, PhD
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery; Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: dopamine release regulated by diet and exercise
Dmitry Rinberg, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: olfactory coding, disease diagnostics
Niels Ringstad, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell Biology; Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: genetics of behavior, circuits, C. elegans, neuromodulation
Bernardo Rudy, PhD
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain Medicine; Julius Raynes Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: organization and function of neocortical circuits
James Salzer, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Professor, Department of Neurology
Research interests: axon–glial interactions in health and disease; myelination; neuropathies
Helen Scharfman, PhD
Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Research interests: excitability and plasticity in the hippocampus with relevance to epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease
David Schoppik, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery; Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: how we balance: development, function, and neurodegenerative failure
Shy Shoham, PhD
Professor, Department of Ophthalmology; Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: neurotechnologies for probing neural systems
Einar Sigurdsson, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Research interests: pathogenesis, treatment and diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases
Tanya Sippy, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry; Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: neural circuits for sensorimotor transformation and psychedelic action
Mario Svirsky, PhD
Noel L. Cohen Professor of Hearing Science, Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery; Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: auditory plasticity, cochlear implants, personalized therapies, neural circuits, and perceptual learning.
Richard Tsien, DPhil
Druckenmiller Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience; Professor, Department of Neurology
Research interests: neuronal plasticity in cortical circuits
Jing Wang, MD, PhD
Valentino D.B. Mazzia, MD, JD Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain Medicine; Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Research interests: pain, neuro-engineering technology for pain diagnosis and treatment, brain-machine interface, invasive and noninvasive neural recordings and neurostimulation in rodent models and humans, cortical pain circuits
Affiliated and Research Faculty
Leon Axel, MD, PhD
Robert G. Baker, PhD
James C. Beck, PhD
Yoko Bekku, PhD
Allal Boutajangout, PhD
Nigel W. Bunnett, PhD
Aravinda Chakravarti, MD
Sumantra Chatterjee, PhD
William A. Coetzee, ScD
Erin E. Congdon, PhD
Claude Desplan, PhD, ScD
Glenn I. Fishman, PhD
Francisco X. Castellanos, MD
Stephen D. Ginsberg, PhD
David S. Goldfarb, MD
Annette Gray, PhD
Robert I. Grossman, MD
Ilya A. Kruglikov, PhD
Yan Lin, MD
JingJing Liu, PhD
Rodolfo Llinas, MD, PhD
Chengzu Long, DDS, MD, PhD
Kenway Louie, MD, PhD
Thong C. Ma, PhD
Robert P. Machold, PhD
Heather M. McKellar, PhD
David W. McLaughlin, PhD
Gregory E. Morley, PhD
J. Anthony Movshon, PhD
Carla Nasca, MD
John C. Nicholson, PhD
Lucy C. Norcliffe-Kaufmann, PhD
Aristides A. Patrinos, PhD
Kelvin Quinones-Laracuente, MD, PhD
Kalman Rubinson, PhD
Neville Sanjana, PhD
Brian L. Schmidt, MD, PhD, DDS
Eero P. Simoncelli, PhD
Daniel K. Sodickson, MD, PhD
Guoling Tian, PhD
Donald A. Wilson, PhD
Yanqing Zhang, MD, PhD
Our Affiliates
Center for Human Genetics and Genomics
Center for Neural Science
Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative Care, and Pain Medicine
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Department of Cell Biology
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Department of Medicine
Department of Neurology
Department of Ophthalmology
Department of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
Department of Pathology
Department of Pediatrics
Department of Population Health
Department of Psychiatry
Department of Radiology
Institute for Systems Genetics
NYU College of Dentisty
Perlmultter Cancer Center
Tandon School of Engineering